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UC Carbon Neutrality and Global Food Initiative Fellows

UC, a national leader in sustainability, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025, becoming the first major university to commit to this goal.

In 2013, UC President Napolitano created the Global Climate Leadership Council to advise her on how to achieve the Carbon Neutrality goal for the UC System. The Council is comprised of scientists, administrators, students and experts from inside and outside UC and will engage the entire university community in its effort to seek out the best practices, policies and technology to achieve carbon neutrality and to advance teaching and research in climate change and sustainability.

GFI: Tammy Nicastro- Assessing the Perceived Impacts of an Integrated HIV Care and Agricultural Livelihood Intervention Program (IHLP) on Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition in Western Kenya Through a Qualitative Secondary Analysis; See poster

GFI: Emily Tuthill, PhD, RN- Current and chronic food insecurity: its impact on depression and emotional mental health among women living with HIV in the U.S; See project

AWARDS
Award amount: $4000 each
Maximum duration: 8 months
Number of awards: up to 8

ELIGIBILITY (Both CNI and GFI fellowships)
Applicant must be currently enrolled in a degree program, residency, fellowship, or postdoc program in the Graduate Division, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, or School of Pharmacy.

One page applicant letter describing the program to be completed under the fellowship and how it aligns with the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

At least one fellow will be appointed to lead student engagement and communications efforts at UCSF for the CNI and the President’s Global Climate Leadership Council— see attached Student Engagement Representative document for more detail. This effort will be supported by an additional $1000 in funding for programming budget. If you would like to be considered for the student engagement role in your application, please include a brief description of goals and objectives.

One page recommendation letter from a faculty or staff advisor on the project, to be submitted directly from the recommender as PDF attachment to email.

SELECTION CRITERIA FOR CNI FELLOW

One position will be selected to lead student engagement and communications efforts at UCSF and the development of a Climate Change and Health Elective sponsored by the Academic Senate Committee on Sustainability or their delegate. See Student Engagement Representative document for more detail. Please include a brief description describing your proposal.

One or two positions will be focused on reducing carbon emissions in healthcare or healthcare research through improving energy efficiency, changing energy intensive processes, reducing anesthesia gas or refrigerant emissions, and/or enacting other related strategies to cut carbon emissions in healthcare.

Preference will be given to programs focused on reducing campus-related emissions to meet net zero greenhouse gases (GHG) from its buildings and vehicle fleet by 2025 (i.e., reduction of GHG emissions related to UCSF’s use of electricity, natural gas, anesthesia gases, refrigerant and vehicle fleet), which is an area of leadership for UCSF within the overall Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

Selections will be made by a committee comprised of members of the Academic Senate Committee on Sustainability.

One page applicant letter describing the research project to be completed under the fellowship and how it aligns with the UC Global Food Initiative. *Additionally, one fellow will be appointed to lead student engagement and communications efforts at UCSF. This representative will have an additional $1000 available for programming budget and will have the opportunity to participate in leadership meetings of the GFI at UCOP in Oakland—see GFI Student Ambassador document for more detail. If you would like to be considered for the student ambassador role in your application, please include a brief description of goals and objectives. Previous fellows are encouraged to apply for this role.

One page recommendation letter from a faculty or staff advisor on the project, to be submitted directly from the recommender as PDF attachment to email.

SELECTION CRITERIA FOR GFI FELLOW

Significance/approach/innovation: Does the project address an important problem? Are the conceptual framework, design, methods, and analyses adequately developed, well integrated and appropriate to the aims of the project? Does the applicant acknowledge potential problem areas and consider alternative tactics? Is the proposed work feasible? Are the project aims original and innovative?

Proposed project should be consistent with the UCGFI goal of aligning the university’s research, outreach and operations in a sustained effort to develop, demonstrate and export solutions — throughout California, the U.S. and the world — for food security, health and sustainability.

Preference will be given to research projects focused on food policy (e.g., mechanisms to leverage research for policy change), which is an area of leadership for UCSF within the overall Global Food Initiative.

Selections will be made be made by a committee comprising members of the Academic Senate Committee on Sustainability.

QUESTIONS

CNI Fellowship: For questions about the application process or the Carbon Neutrality Initiative, your program focus or current activities, please contact UCSF CNI Representative and UCSF Campus and Medical Center Sustainability Director, Gail Lee, (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); 415-502-6315).

GFI Fellowship: For questions about the application process or the Global Food Initiative, your program focus or current activities, please contact UCSF GFI Representative and UCSF Health Sustainability Officer, Dan Henroid (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); 415-353-1348).